Napoleon Hill Quotes

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I'm always trying to stay above the rest, and that's by doing the extra work.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.